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Short Description
Starts failover by failover plan.
Applies to
Platform: VMware, Hyper-V
Product Edition: Enterprise, Enterprise Plus
Syntax
Start-VBRFailoverPlan -FailoverPlan <VBRFailoverPlan[]> [-Wait] [-Force] [<CommonParameters>] -OR- Start-VBRFailoverPlan -FailoverPlan <VBRFailoverPlan[]> [-FromDate <datetime>] [-Wait] [-Force] [<CommonParameters>] -OR- Start-VBRFailoverPlan -FailoverPlan <VBRFailoverPlan[]> [-Wait] [-Force] [-Test] [<CommonParameters>] |
Related Commands
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Detailed Description
This cmdlet starts failover by failover plan. With this cmdlet, you can start a number of failover processes.
Parameters
Parameter | Description | Required | Position | Accept | Accept |
FailoverPlan | Specifies the failover plan you want to start. Accepts VBRFailoverPlan. You can assign multiple plans to this object. | True | Named | True (by Value | False |
FromDate | Use this parameter to fail over to a particular restore point. Specifies the date and time to which you want to fail over. Veeam Backup & Replication will find a restore point closest to this moment. If omitted, Veeam Backup & Replication will fail over to the latest restore point. | False | Named | False | False |
Wait | Use this parameter to manage starting multiple failover processes. If indicated, the next failover process will wait for the previous to end. | False | Named | False | False |
Force | Used for cloud failovers to start full failover after the user's site is already partially failed over to cloud replicas. If set, the cmdlet turns off the user appliance without notifying the user. Otherwise, the cmdlet will display a warning. |
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Test | If set, the failover runs in test mode. |
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<CommonParameters>
This cmdlet supports Microsoft PowerShell common parameters. For more information about common parameters, see http://go.microsoft.com/fwlink/p/?LinkID=113216.
Example 1
This command starts failover process by failover plan named "MS Exchange Group Failover". The VMs in the failover group are failed over to the latest restore point.
- The failover plan is obtained with Get-VBRFailoverPlan and piped down.
- The FromDate parameter is omitted to select the latest restore point automatically.
Example 2
This command starts failover process represented by the '$MSExchangeGroup' variable. The VMs in the failover group are failed over to the latest restore point.
- The failover plan is obtained with Get-VBRFailoverPlan and assigned to the '$MSExchangeGroup' variable beforehand.
- The FromDate parameter is omitted to select the latest restore point automatically.
Example 3
This command starts failover processes by failover plans named "MS Exchange Group Failover" and "SQLServers Group Failover". The VMs are failed over to a week ago state. The VM groups are failed over one by one.
- The date is obtained with the Date command and assigned to the '$date' variable beforehand.
- The failover plans are obtained with Get-VBRFailoverPlan and piped down.
- The Wait parameter is used to start the failover processes one after the other.
